Macworld 2006: Adobe has today announced a new application aimed squarely at the digital photographer. Lightroom is a workflow and editting application which takes all of the useful photography related stuff from Photoshop and combines this with a sophisticated importation, browsing and organizational front-end. Lightroom is clearly aimed at taking on Apple Aperture as well as a few other high end workflow tools. At the moment Lightroom is available as a Mac OS X only Beta for anyone to try.

link to the article:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06010901adobelightroom.asp

and a preview from Michael Reichmann at The Luminous Landscape:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/lightroom1.shtml